414 PLOCKID^. 



white ; the feathers of the mantle and back white or yellowish 

 white on the inner webs, brown on the outer ones ; scapulars 

 uniform chocolate-brown ; lower back chocolate-brown, the feathers 

 sulphur-yellow at the tips ; rump entirely sulphur-yellow ; upper 

 tail-coverts dusky brown, washed with sulphur-yellow ; wing- 

 coverts chocolate-brown, the mediau and greater coverts white at 

 the ends, forming a double wing-bar, of which the median one is 

 the broader ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills chocolate- 

 brown, with whity-browQ edges to the latter ; tail-feathers ashy 

 brown, fringed.with whity brown, yellowish on the centre feathers ; 

 crown of head, sides of face, ear-coverts, and sides of neck dark 

 chocolate-brown ; cheeks and under surface of body white, with a 

 wash of sulphur-yellow, a little more distinct on the sides of body ; 

 under wing-coverts white ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner 

 edge : " bill blackish ; feet brown ; iris brick-red " (J. AncMeta). 

 Total length 5-4 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-25, tail 1-65, tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. Benguela. 

 a. Ad. sk. Caconda, Benguela (/. AncMeta). Shelley Coll. 



46. HETERHYPHANTES. 



Head of Heterhyphantes melanogantcr, to show nostril and nuchal hairs*. 

 Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



Ear-coverts orange or yellow. 

 a. Wing-coverts and inner secondaries 

 edged with yellow. 

 a" . EJreast and abdomen yellow. 



a". Head orange-yellow, contrasting 

 with the back. 

 «*. Back, wings, and tail deep cho- 

 colate-brown nigricoUis J , p. 415. 



¥. Back, wings, and tail black .... melanoxanthus S , P- 416. 

 b'". Head black, with a broad yellow 

 eyebrow ; throat and underparts 

 bright yellow. 



* This species has been chosen for illustration, as it shows the nuchal hairs 

 developed in an extraordinary way. It is not often that they can be seen so 

 plainly. 



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